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They're hardly going to come out and blast the fuck out of him when he's a current and most likely future work colleague.

I've not seen this incident, got a gif or video bud?

I can't believe how lightly Owen got off on MOTD tonight. He's thrown a punch, there's no question of it, and it shouldn't matter that he's a weak little bitch who can't properly connect a hit when the guy he's going for is on the ground and facing the other way. Can you imagine the reaction had someone like Balotelli thrown a punch at someone? They would have hounded him and exclaimed what a disgrace he was to our fair league. Unfortunately it seems if you spend more time on their sofas than actually playing the game you're paid thousands of pounds a week for, you're allowed to get a free ride from Hansen et al and do whatever the fuck you want.

Oh, and Tony Pulis can go fuck himself. Biased, bitter old cunt.

They're hardly going to come out and blast the fuck out of him when he's a current and most likely future work colleague.

I've not seen this incident, got a gif or video bud?

It shouldn't matter that they're all best buds - you can't throw a punch. Perhaps I'm being too harsh on Owen, but what really bugs me is the bias shown by the MOTD guys, as well as the likes of Jamie Redknapp on Sky, who often let personal relationships influence their commentary on specific players. They should be completely partial.

They achieved that tbf.

There really was fuck all in that.

If Owen is reprimanded for putting his hand on Arteta then Wilshere should be banned for running and pushing him.

It shouldn't matter that they're all best buds - you can't throw a punch. Perhaps I'm being too harsh on Owen, but what really bugs me is the bias shown by the MOTD guys, as well as the likes of Jamie Redknapp on Sky, who often let personal relationships influence their commentary on specific players. They should be completely impartial.

That's just human nature though. I'm hardly going to lay into one of my mates when he's wrong in front of a huge group of people, I'd take him aside in private and do that, just human nature as I said. Commentators can't be 100% bias if they've any recent history playing football, it's impossible.

What? I'm not claiming that they should have hung Owen out to dry, but they didn't even condemn the action and brushed it off as nothing. I know that there was little contact and it was made in the heat of the moment, but it's completely wrong to even attempt to throw a punch. They're paid a lot of money to be impartial pundits and as such I'd expect Owen to get the same treatment as any other player. What exactly are you saying - that they were right to say nothing about it, but only if they called up Owen are afterwards, in private, to tell him he was in the wrong?

No I'm saying because they're buddies and have each other on speed dial in their phones they aren't going to say a bad word about him. They won't act impartial, regardless of how much they're paid, because at the end of the day Owen is a mate of theirs and they will treat him differently. I'm not saying that's right, but that's just human nature, protecting their mates in a way.

Even if it's 'human nature', it's not right. It's not their job to be mates with him and he should get the same treatment as everyone else when they're commenting on incidents involving him. Again, I wasn't calling for them to widely criticise him, but it's perfectly reasonable for me to expect them to condemn throwing a punch even if they're all best buddies.

Wilshere's not involved in the incident and gets himself involved, he's more guilty than either Owen or Arteta.

Wilshere's not involved in the incident and gets himself involved, he's more guilty than either Owen or Arteta.

gotta load off Mert and Sagna

I don't think Mertesacker is good enough for Arsenal tbh.

You could easily sign somebody better than Mertesacker. We have 2 centre backs that are better than him, for a start.